01-20-2017, 08:42 AM
Hey Primal,
When I said "we" I guess I meant those who tend to inform cultural practices that modify our interactions with the natural world, ie:the scientific community, whom for all their studies and pedigrees seem to have thus far been unable to connect the essential dots regarding these systemic arboreal blights. I did do some initial searches to see if wood ash treatments were utilzed anywhere for Dutch Elm and have not been able to locate any such experiments. Since the initial outbreaks of Dutch Elm on the mainland happened well into the Industrial Revolution, 'slash and burn' was already removed from the modern lexicon. A ban on moving the wood is not ultimately a solution. While the ban makes sense for the moment, if pretreating trees with ash proves to make the trees abhorrant to Ambrosia Beetles (the chief traffickers of CF) then the ban will serve only to hinder substantial amounts of tree food/ medicine from being created. I'm looking at the long game with this assertion.
When I said "we" I guess I meant those who tend to inform cultural practices that modify our interactions with the natural world, ie:the scientific community, whom for all their studies and pedigrees seem to have thus far been unable to connect the essential dots regarding these systemic arboreal blights. I did do some initial searches to see if wood ash treatments were utilzed anywhere for Dutch Elm and have not been able to locate any such experiments. Since the initial outbreaks of Dutch Elm on the mainland happened well into the Industrial Revolution, 'slash and burn' was already removed from the modern lexicon. A ban on moving the wood is not ultimately a solution. While the ban makes sense for the moment, if pretreating trees with ash proves to make the trees abhorrant to Ambrosia Beetles (the chief traffickers of CF) then the ban will serve only to hinder substantial amounts of tree food/ medicine from being created. I'm looking at the long game with this assertion.